Аннотация: Alexander Khanzhonkov. Memoirs of a young, enthusiastic, successful businessman from pre-revolutionary Russia. A literary note.
Alexander Khanzhonkov. Memoirs of a young, enthusiastic, successful businessman from pre-revolutionary Russia. A literary note.
After the essay 'Khonzhenkovo, Khanzhonkovka and Khanzhonkov. An essay on geographical and historical associations' I found and downloaded the book by Alexander Alekseevich Khanzhonkov' The first years of Russian cinematography. Memories, M.-L., 1937. 176 pages. [Александр Алексеевич Ханжонков 'Первые годы русской кинематографии. Воспоминания', М.-Л., 1937 год. 176 страниц.]
I read several pages with pleasure - to read sequentially it takes a lot of time.
What impression does this book leave?
A great writing style!
Alexander Khanzhonkov appears not only as a talented businessman (in the film business), but also as an excellent writer.
The book breaks up into many separate plots. New idea, new problem. Alexander Khanzhonkov is looking for a solution. He is acting. The correct solution has been found. Success.
In a number of cases, business partners dragged Alexander Khanzhonkov into difficult, and even hopeless, situations. But the solar wind of luck was inflating a sails, and instead of the losing of business, the young businessman was acquiring a new success.
Gradually, a portrait of Alexander Khanzhonkov himself emerges for the reader - a young man who, by the will of fate, came into contact with the film business, took a significant risk and won.
He is honest, decent, passionate about a new business. One can see such a feature as a condescending (benevolent?) attitude towards people - to subordinates and to business partners.
Khanzhonkov's connections with businessmen from France and Italy, and from other European countries are being established, in general, without difficulty.
Foreign figures feel in Khanzhonkov their own man, a man of his word, a man without a second or third bottom, a man whose good faith is indisputable. Maybe the enthusiastic Khanzhonkov is somewhat naive, and this added to him attractiveness - as to a possible business partner?
The revolutionary and post-revolutionary period in the 'personal entrepreneurial history' of Alexander Khanzhonkov was not very interesting for me. It is clear that the thinking of a businessman is different from that of a politician.
Alexander Khanzhonkov perfectly solved entrepreneurial problems.
At the same time, a frequenter of European libraries, an expert on the French Revolution of 1789 and other European revolutions, was developing a revolutionary project for Russia ...
The year 1917 has come.
The book ends with a description of Yalta in 1920 (almost from scratch, Alexander Khanzhonkov created a film studio ("atelier"), a stormy film activity starts ...).
The departure of Alexander Khanzhonkov abroad from the Crimea 'for treatment' is mentioned ... Perhaps the memoirs have a continuation?
Personally, I liked the descriptions of Russian business in the pre-revolutionary, pre-war (before 1914) period.
For the outlook, it is certainly useful to read a few pages of this book. If you have time, you can read the whole book - sequentially page by page.
On modern monuments to Alexander Khanzhonkov, someone can see a person of a post-revolutionary type from the southern regions, who received the Stalin Prize or other big money in the field of cinema ...
[MMCMLVII. Khonzhenkovo, Khanzhonkovka and Khanzhonkov. An essay on geographical and historical associations. - May 15, 2022.].
May 17, 2022 20:14
Translation from Russian into English: May 17, 2022 21:00.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Александр Ханжонков. Мемуары молодого, увлеченного, удачливого бизнесмена из дореволюционной России. Литературная заметка'.
{ 2995. Александр Ханжонков. Мемуары молодого, увлеченного, удачливого бизнесмена из дореволюционной России. Литературная заметка.
MMCMLXV. Alexander Khanzhonkov. Memoirs of a young, enthusiastic, successful businessman from pre-revolutionary Russia. A literary note. }